Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-12
TEAoHERs DIssATIsFIED.

SuDerintendent DuttOn Tells Them
 They Must Go to Hartford and Attend
 The State Convention or Lose Their y Days SalarY-Much LanAentation.
 The teachers of the public schools of this city have had something to make them talk a good deal amongst themselves for the past few days. Many of them are very pro- nounced in their assertions, while others seem to take a more philosophical view of the
 matter. Superintendent Dutton recently sent
 letter to each of the principals of the vari-
 ous schools telling them to inform the teach
 CTS in the building over which they had
 charge that they were expected to attend the meeting of the State Teachers association at Hartford on Friday. The meeting is also held on Saturday, but about this day Mr. Dutton in his letter says nothing. Mir. Dutton further says that all teachers who do not go to Hartford on that day will have deducted from their salary their pay for that day. The teachers are expected to pay their fare to and | from Hartford besides settling for their meals, and with the other little necessary ex- | penses incident to such 8 trip the teacher \ will be pecuniarilY at least as well, if not better, off to stay at home, as the amount \ they will expend will probably be as much | and in some cases more than what their wages for that day would be.
 Heretofore it has been the habit of having | the Friday on which the State Teachers as- l sociation was held as a holiday, and it was | purely optional with the teacher whether ol | not she wanted to attend tho meeting. Ii | she did not she could have the day as holi | day, and she received her salary for the day | just the same as if she had gone to the meet | ing. This year no provision was made in the
 school report for the Friday to be a holiday ' It was Dut down in the calendar as 8 regular
 school day. Superintendent Dutton has thus
 taken advantage of it's being set a regular
 school day to in reality compel the teachers ! if possible to attend the meeting in Hartford. l The teachers do not like this apparently com I pulsory move on the part of their superin | tendsnt, and some of them not at al
 backward in saying so: While there IL
 go to Hartford, yet the greater
 share say that they think it will probably
 be best for their own good to go as the ! superintendent is so anxious to have them Last year only about third of the teach ! CTS of this city attended the meeting of the
 association. The move on the part of Super | intendent Dutton is evidently to create more ! interest among the teachers in these annua meetings of the State Teachers association This may be all very well, but the teachers do strenuously object to having their salary
 'docked" for that day if they do not at ! tend.
 Last Monday night the principals of tho various schools met in Superintendent Out ! tons office to talk the matter over. Ont | principal informed the superintendent tha ! out of the twenty teachers in his building ht had found sixteen of them who were not ir l favor of going to Hartford. The superin ! tendent urged all to use their influence tc ! get rousing attendance at the teachers as | sociation.